本书角度新颖，视角独特，文本分析细微，说理引证均比较深刻，丰富了赫斯顿研究和美国黑人作家这一领域的研究，具有一定的创新性和学术价值。尤其在对赫斯顿民俗资料的梳理方面为后来的研究可提供有益的参考。

本书适合从事相关研究工作的人员参考阅读。

序言

前言

Chapter One Introduction

 1.1 The Resurrection of Zora Neale Hurston

 1.2 Hurston's Folklore Fiction

 1.3 The Significance of Reevaluating Hurston's Folklore Fiction

Chapter Two The Prominence of Folkloric Representations in Hurston's Fiction

 2.1 The Entry of Black Folklore into Hurston's Fiction

 2.2 The Definition and Categorization of Folklore

 2.3 The Literary Types of Folklore in Hurston's Fiction

 2.4 The Linguistic Types of Folklore in Hurston's Fiction

 2.5 The Religious Types of Folklore in Hurston's Fiction

 2.6 The Action Types of Folklore in Hurston's Fiction

Chapter Three Folklore as a Survival Strategy

 3.1 The Vogue of Black Folk Culture During the Harlem Renaissance

 3.2 The Dilemma of African American Writers and Hurston's Masking Strategy

 3.3 The Criticism of White Cultural Values

 3.4 The Deconstruction of the Stereotyped Negro Images

Chapter Four Folklore as a Means of Reconstructing Black Cultural Identity

 4.1 American Culture, African American Culture and African American Folklore

 4.2 Racism and Black Cultural Identity

 4.3 The Socio-Historical Context of Reconstructing Black Cultural Identity

 4.4 Reconstructing Black Cultural Identity on Difference

Chapter Five Conclusion

Bibliography

后记